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| Genre/Form: | Biographies Case studies History Sources Diaries Biography Études de cas |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Captain's widow of Sandwich. New York : New York University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009042908 |
| Named Person: | Hannah Rebecca Burgess |
| Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Megan Taylor Shockley |
| ISBN: | 9780814783191 0814783198 |
| OCLC Number: | 897034635 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 267 p.) maps |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments Author's Note on the Journals Introduction 1 Rebecca's World: Developing Character 2 Becoming the Captain's Wife: Crafting Personas and Defining Relationships 3 Rebecca at Sea: Fashioning a New Identity 4 Challenges and Transitions: Shifting Identities 5 A New Era, a New Narrative 6 Visible and Invisible: Rebecca's Multiple Identities 7 From Legacy to Legend Conclusion Appendix Notes Works Cited Index About the Author |
| Responsibility: | Megan Taylor Shockley |
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. . . a fruitfull approach to the study of how women in history were able to shape their private stories for public consumption to promote their own legacy. -- Robin Miskolcze * The Journal of American History * Shockley has written a fine historian's biography that is also a good read. The Captains Widow of Sandwich shows how Burgess created her own heroic persona and how that particular version of one womans story embodied and ennobled the ideals of an embattled Cape Cod community. -- Cynthia Kierner,author of The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic Shockleys fascinating analysis of the life and writing of Rebecca Burgess complicates our understanding of the construction of white, middle-class womanhood in Victorian America. Burgess neither rejected nor embraced the traditional meanings of womanhood in her day. She was independent and obedient, domestic and a wanderer. She valued & separate spheres and loved her ocean travels with her sea captain husband. Burgesss story is a cautionary tale, a reminder that real human beings are generally more complex than we may realize. -- Sheila Skemp,author of First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence Read more...
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